Where should I sale my wrecked car? (pauntyacina - 5th Jan 10)
Where is a good place to sale my old wrecked car? Please help me by sugesting some sites or companies.
Hi, guys. (James Yeap Yi Sheng - 30th Nov 09)
I've read about your amazing adventures through the Artic in the December/January 2009 issue of Dicovery Channel Magazine. You guys were very amazing and determined, having braved through all the hard weather conditions and yet when you failed, you still tried again the second time, with better equipment and more experience and determination than ever before. You guys are a fantastic role-model for me.
Good luck for your next project!
Chris & Clark's Reply (1st Dec 09)
Thanks James, we're glad you enjoyed the read. Feel free to join our mailing list to be kept in the loop with our latest adventures!
Merry Xmas!
Where can I donate my car? I want to recieve a tax deduction. (steeltyWeed - 27th Oct 09)
I want to donate my car to a charity. I do want to recieve a tax deduction, but I don't want it to go to just any charity I would very much like my car to go to a needy family. I am in the Houton area. Can anybody help me or have any sugestions.
wish you would stop all this stamping all over the planet sillyness and get a real job
Chris & Clark's Reply (13th Sep 09)
Says the man who spends half his time underwater... =P
In the blood (Ben Wright - 22nd Aug 09)
You should meet my cousin.
She’s a journalist who seeks out extreme adventure. Her current choice of excitement is to embed herself with the forces in Afghanistan – which one I’m not quite sure. She was with the Brit’s for a time, but there wasn’t enough news, so she moved to the Canadian forces who were getting brassed up. Received some wild photo’s of Chinooks in formation over the desert. Last photo was from the middle of an ambush of US 101 Airborne. Apparently an IED took out the lead car with a heavy follow up of RPG and AK-47 fire. Had her, and the platoon, pinned for two hours until archlight arrived and carpet bombed the Taliban off the hills. Her report made it into Janes Magazine along with a great photo.
She had an interest in South America and the drugs industry. Her work took her to Columbia and Brazilian slums. You can see a lot of her reports by Google’ing “"Jo Wright" Brazil”. Apparently South America was too tame, or she had to leave quickly after a BBC report went to air, not quite sure… Anyway she’s now back where the wild things are in Afghanistan, somewhere behind the lines, on the Iranian border ,reporting for Janes Magazine. Apparently she’s reached a journalistic position in Janes, that her work is published unattributed. Quite an interesting woman, who, like you, has a taste for the extreme. Somehow, I don’t think Jo will die in her bed…..will you ?
Ben
Chris & Clark's Reply (23rd Aug 09)
Hi Ben, thanks for the message. Your cousin sounds like she's pretty dedicated to her job! I'm not sure if we have a taste for something THAT extreme, but we certainly love adventure! Cheers, Clark
I watched every day as James and Justin crossed the ditch and when you two went across Victoria Island. Now I can't wait for James, Justin and Clark's Antartica trip! How exciting that you, Clark, will be going! The best of luck to the 3 of you.
And to you too, Chris, in all that you do.
I will be watching, thanks for this update, I was wondering not long ago what you were up to....
pat in Texas
Chris & Clark's Reply (22nd Aug 09)
Good on you 'Pat in Texas'!! haha, we always loved getting emails from you out there. Yeah Clark's trip with the boys will be awesome, even I'm looking forward to being an armchair adventurer for that one =) Will have to make sure I have an armchair in my little yacht hey... =) Cheers mate!
Chris & Clarke
Can't tell you how dull this summer has seemed without the vicarious thrills of following your Victoria Island expedition like I did last year. Very much looking forward to the book and documentary.
Congrats on running the Aussie/NZ Chapter of The Explorers Club. Having done so myself for 6 years, I can offer some advise if needed. One: get good speakers--even if their subject matter isn't as compelling, the strencth of the presenter outweighs the story. Two: run events in conjunction with other like-minded organizations. This ensures good attendance, a positive cash flow, and espirt de corps among your members. Don't neglect the regular attendees who are perhaps only armchair explorers--if they come to your events and patronize the EC, they are more valuable than those who are actual EC Members but never seem to make it to meetings or events.
I will redouble my efforts to get you two on the program for ECAD 2010. As Chapter officers, the appeal to the Club is even stronger. Moreover, you two are precisely the type of younger Explorers that we need to attract if the EC is to continue to be in the forefront of field exploration.
Keep up the great work and let's by all means remain in touch,
Your friend and colleague in exploration,
Peter Hess
Hessians@aol.com
Chris & Clark's Reply (24th Aug 09)
Good to hear from you Peter! =) Thanks for the note. Ohh we'd LOVE to come to ECAD to speak, it'd be great... please do see what strings you can pull! =) Yes, exciting times developing with EC here in Aust / NZ... cool plans afoot... Keep in touch, Cheers
Thanks for the update Chris, you guys are so inspiring, keep up the good work, and I love the updates....cheers
bias (Gary Magee - 15th Aug 09)
Hi there. I live in Cambridge Bay, and I'm wondering why you describe Victoria Island as 'largely unexplored' and your crossing as such a thing that nobody had ever done. It strikes me as fairly eurocentric, considering that people have lived all over the island for thousands of years, and those people would have made 'unsupported' journeys longer than yours annually, at least. Did you mean to say 'a journey no Aussie has done before'?
Chris & Clark's Reply (16th Aug 09)
Hi Gary,
It's a valid question you have, and I am happy to explain things from our perspective. We researched extensively before the expedition, not to try and find out if no one had visited these parts of the island before so as to claim a 'first', but rather we were trying to find as much info about what the terrain would be like, etc etc, so that we could try and improve our chances of making it across. We talked to many experienced and in-the- know people, including many Inuit, and elders. We always assumed at first that the Inuit must have surely been all over the island, yet we learnt that the Inuit people while nomadic were not wandering aimlessly, they followed the food, logically - they followed the Caribou migration paths etc etc, there are very definite regions in the island where the Caribou etc pass, and hence on the expedition we found countless stone tent-rings, bone tools etc some likely dating back several thousand years (based on lichen growth).
Where the Inuit travelled, we found plenty of evidence of them, and the Inuit Heritage Society was very interested in our findings and we happily documented these archaeological sites and gave them GPS locations and photographs etc, and we are quite proud to have done that, and wrote it in our expedition updates etc - we were in no way trying to hide the fact that other humans had been to many of the places through which we travelled.
However, there were large pockets of the Island where the Caribou do not migrate through, and where there were no readily available food source historically, and not surprisingly, we found absolutely no evidence for Inuit having been in these areas, which agreed with the local knowledge given to us by other people who live in Cambridge Bay. There was no reason for them to have gone to these places. Inuit elders, including some who represent the Inuit People in government, and who are the first to remind everyone of the Inuit's heritage and history - they too advised us that we were passing through regions where as far as they believed, no human had likely ever been - now that is going much further than saying 'unexplored'.
And, regarding if anyone had ever crossed the whole island before, there is certainly no evidence that the Inuit would have made a pilgrimage from the east coast to the west coast - and that is not surprising, because to a hunter-gather community, why would they do such an abstract obscure thing?
They had no reason - it is only westerners, as you say, who have the luxury to pick such obscure goals and undertake them. I'm not saying the Inuit people couldn't have crossed the whole island from E to W if they wanted, of course they could, quite easily in winter especially with sled dogs etc, but it seems they did not, and also for the sake of argument 'unsupported'
in
the terminology that the 'adventure community' have coined (rather irrationally, I agree, as it is a very grey line..) means under your own power, not using sled dogs etc.. Now clearly we didn't get all the way in one go, so we do not claim to have crossed the whole island unsupported, we rightly can claim though that the two separate attempts were unsupported.
I believe, and so do the Inuit we have asked, that no one had ever set out to do what we tried - to walk deliberately from one side of the island to the other (why would anyone? haha), and that we certainly would have travelled through parts of the island that few if any humans had ever seen before. Of course, no one can be sure, but after doing all the research we could, and asking all the best equipped people to answer, that is the findings we reached.
Sadly of course these days with mining operations sampling the surface of the island in a grid-like fashion looking for diamonds etc, there is rapidly less and less 'unvisited' parts of the island, but that's the way it goes I guess.
I hope this helps explain our claims a little better.
Cheers
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